window.open is not working

Question

I am having trouble with window.open() in javascript. I have it set up in such a way that at the click of a button certain data will be validated on the server side in php. If the data is valid, then $openView is set to true. Once the page reloads, I have the function popUP() call onload. For some reason that is unknown to me, the window.open doesn't do anything

    function popUp()
    {
        //if the view button was click with a valid input
        <?php if ($openView){?>
            window.open("view.php?resName=<?php echo $resumename;?>");
        <?php }?>
    }

I have tried it without the php statement, I have tried to echo window.open() from the server side. Nothing helped.The goal is to open the given page in a new window after the data has been validated on the server side. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

The problem

I am afraid that your browser does not allow such script to prevent popups .

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The solution

You browser (and his popup blockers) will typically only allow window.open if used during the processing of a user event (like a click). So you should try to redesign your script behaviour.

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Maybe another interesting approach

Maybe you should consider using a nice popup-like jquery plugin like Fancybox . This won't be blocked by your browser, since it's not a real popup.

Answer 2

You need to write the function in javascript as:

<script>

function popUp(resumename;)
    {

            window.open("view.php?resName="+resumename+"");

    }

</script>

<a href="javascript:popUp(<?php echo $resumename ?>)">Test</a>